(Swiss Info) The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has opened an investigation into suspected Swiss financing of Palestinian militant group Hamas. “The criminal investigation was opened a few weeks ago, shortly before the Hamas attack in Israel,” Attorney General Stefan Blättler […]
(Times of Malta) Three Syrian men, tracked down following a magisterial inquiry into reports of terrorism-related activity, were on Friday charged with money laundering, involvement in a criminal organisation and sharing of terrorist material. One of the men, who faced the lesser […]
(Jewish News) Some of London’s most luxurious hotels — including the Connaught and Claridge’s — are the target of a boycott campaign due to their Qatari owner, who was prime minister of the emirate when Hamas moved its headquarters there. Billionaire Hamad […]
(European Conservative) Police in the French city of Nantes have arrested a man in relation to the Brussels terrorist attack earlier this week which saw two Swedes shot and killed by Tunisian illegal immigrant and radical Islamist Abdesalem Lassoued, who was shot […]
(AP) Belgium’s justice minister resigned on Friday over what he described as a “monumental error” after it was discovered that Tunisia was seeking the extradition last year of an Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes and wounded a third this week. […]
(Arab News) The UK’s commissioner for countering extremism has warned the government that it must stop radical Muslim clerics from entering the country and should label a number of groups as terrorists. Robin Simcox said Britain is experiencing a rise in extremist […]
(Reuters) Germany’s interior minister said on Friday Hamas supporters should be deported from the country where possible, and authorities would keep a close eye on potential threats following the Palestinian militant group’s attack on Israel. “If we are able to deport Hamas […]
(Olive Press) A suspected jihadist has been arrested in Andalucia as Spain intensifies its anti-terror operations following attacks in France and Belgium. The 22-year-old was cuffed following a raid on his home in Huetor Tajar, Granada, on Friday [morning]. According to news […]
(Euractiv) According to an investigation, leisure centres, preschools, and social services are among the places where former ISIS jihadists are now working, prompting Liberal Education Minister Lotta Edholm to call Sweden’s policy on the return and control of former Swedish Islamist fighters […]
(Sky News) A clinical support worker accused of planning terrorist attacks on a hospital in Leeds and an RAF base has admitted possessing a pressure cooker bomb. Mohammad Farooq is accused of targeting St James’s Hospital in Leeds after a failed attempt […]
(Politico) Outside Sweden’s national sports arena, two framed football shirts sit beneath a flag at half-mast, a memorial to the two fans killed by a terrorist in Brussels on Monday night, and a reminder to passers-by to be vigilant for follow-up attacks. […]
(AP) The European Union on Thursday demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war, flexing the power of a new law that threatens billions in fines if tech giants fail to do enough […]
(AP) Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he chased two Swedish men into a building in Brussels this week and gunned them down at close range with a semiautomatic rifle. The 45-year-old Tunisian arrived on […]
(ABC) With two deadly acts of terrorism confirmed in Western Europe in the last six days, the European Union’s top law enforcement official said she is worried about what might happen in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s […]
(Local) Spain’s far-right party Vox has formally proposed that people “of Islamic cultures” be prevented from gaining Spanish citizenship or residency following the terror attacks in Belgium, France and Hamas’s incursion into Israel. Vox wants to prevent any more Muslims from becoming […]
(Deutsche Welle) At least 174 people were arrested and 65 police officers were injured at unauthorized pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin on Wednesday night, according to a police spokesperson. Authorities had banned such protests, which have been called in response to the conflict […]
(Sky News) A Moroccan national has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of stabbing a 70-year-old man to death in Hartlepool, in a knife attack alleged to have been motivated by terrorism. Ahmed Alid is charged with the attempted murder of his […]
(AP) The alleged attacker who killed two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels this week before he was shot dead by police was residing in Belgium illegally and should have left the country three years ago, but never did. In a country that […]
(Reuters) The leaders of Belgium and Sweden and the European Union’s chief executive promised on Wednesday to tighten border security and step up repatriations after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels. They spoke after […]
(National-UAE) The Court of Appeal will hear Shamima Begum’s legal fight over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship next week. The 24-year-old was stripped of her citizenship on national security grounds at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which she […]
(BBC) A woman has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of handing over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kenya. Amina Noor, 39, is charged with assisting a non-UK person to mutilate the girl’s genitalia in 2006. The […]
(Politico) A French senator on Wednesday called for Karim Benzema to be stripped of his French citizenship after Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin suggested the football star was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist party considered to be a terrorist group […]
(Jewish News) Some of Britain’s most senior Muslim leaders have said they “denounce Hamas’s killing and abduction of innocent people” on 7 October and have steered clear of apportioning blame for the Gaza hospital killings. In a significant intervention by leading Muslim […]
(Politico) Belgian authorities were well aware of the gunman who caused terror in Brussels — and yet he was still able to shoot two people dead. The attacker — who killed two Swedish football fans on Monday evening — had been on the authorities’ […]
(AFP) Ligue 1 side Nice suspended Algerian international Youcef Atal “until further notice” on Wednesday after he shared a controversial post on social media linked to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. Even though he quickly deleted the […]
(Reuters) France’s highest administrative court stated on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian protests must be banned on a case-by-case basis, while upholding the validity of an instruction from the French interior minister banning all pro-Palestinian protests. In a note sent to regional police authorities, […]
(AFP) German football club Mainz on Tuesday said they had suspended player Anwar El Ghazi after the winger made an “unacceptable” comment on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on social media. “El Ghazi took a position on the ongoing conflict in the […]
(Sky News) The director general of MI5 has told Sky News his intelligence officers are “focused with particular intensity” on a growing risk of attacks within the UK following events in the Middle East. In a rare interview, Ken McCallum said: “Sadly, […]
(AFP) The man who killed a schoolteacher in northern France last week was charged with terror offences on Tuesday, a prosecutor said, after revealing that he had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group in an audio recording before his attack. […]
(Euro Weekly) Two people were attacked by a mentally ill man who chased them with a machete on Sunday evening. Catalonian police managed to apprehend and arrest a Moroccan national who chased people through the streets while wielding a machete, but that […]
(Reuters) Europe is seeing a rise of “Islamist terrorism” and all states are threatened, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a visit to Albania, after Islamist killings of a teacher in France and two Swedish football fans in Belgium. Macron […]
(AP) The killing of two Swedish citizens in an attack ahead of a soccer match in Brussels has shocked the Scandinavian country, although the government has been warning for months that Swedes were at greater risk since a recent string of public […]
(AP) Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national on Tuesday hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them, and posted a video online in which he claimed credit for the attack […]
(NL Times) A woman convicted for belonging to the terrorist organization Islamic State worked for the Dutch refugee council Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland for a year. The 39-year-old woman volunteered as a legal assistant at the organization and had access to refugees’ personal files, […]
(Reuters) Italy on Tuesday arrested an Egyptian and an Italian citizen of Egyptian origin on suspicion of terrorism offences and being members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group, the Milan prosecutors’ office said. Prosecutors said the two were arrested in the […]
(Variety) Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the BBC’s London headquarters on Monday evening to protest the broadcaster’s coverage of the terrorist attacks that took place in Israel last week. The BBC has found itself mired in controversy after refusing to describe Palestinian […]
(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron held a special security meeting on Monday amid heightened alert against feared terror threats, as a high school where a teacher was fatally stabbed in an attack last week has been evacuated over a bomb threat. Several […]
(Politico) Just three days after an Islamist stabbed a French teacher to death, an already fierce discussion on immigration in France has become a lot more heated. The killing last Friday of Dominique Bernard, a high school teacher in Arras, has emotionally […]
(AFP) French prosecutors on Monday launched a preliminary investigation into a top-flight footballer on suspicion of “glorifying terrorism” after he reposted an allegedly anti-Semitic message on social media relating to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Youcef Atal, an Algerian international who plays for Ligue […]
(BBC) A man has been charged with murder after a 70-year-old died in Hartlepool, counter-terrorism police said. Terrence Carney was found seriously injured on Tees Street on Sunday morning and died at the scene. Another man was found with non-life-threatening injuries at […]
(Reuters) Two Swedish nationals were shot to death and a third person was wounded in central Brussels on Monday night, and a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. The suspected […]
(Sky News) A clinical support worker has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences ahead of his trial for allegedly planning an attack on a maternity hospital in Leeds and an RAF station in North Yorkshire. Mohammad Farooq, 27, from Roundhay in Leeds, is […]
(ITV) A former drug dealer, alleged to be the fourth member of the so-called ISIS “Beatles” kidnap gang, has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, after a failed bid by the home secretary to have him sent to the US. Aine Davis, 39, […]
(AP) Algeria soccer player Youcef Atal, who plays for French Ligue 1 side Nice, apologized Sunday after reportedly reposting and then deleting a video that called for “a black day for Jews.” French Football Federation President Philippe Diallo said Atal had relayed […]
(NL Times) Dutch intelligence service AIVD had information about a serious threat to Ahmad Mola Nissi, an opponent of the Iranian regime who was assassinated in The Hague in 2017, but failed to share it with the Public Prosecution Service (OM). This […]
(Sky News) Two women who wore images of paragliders on their backs during yesterday’s protest for Palestinians are now being sought by London police. The women, who wore red and black jackets, are being asked to come forward as part of an […]
(Reuters) French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday deployed up to 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols, as bomb alerts forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum a day after a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack. France was put on its […]
(Breitbart) Thousands of anti-Israel protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday, with some carrying the black jihadist flag used by numerous Islamist terrorist organisations. Following the murderous terror assault by Hamas on Israel last weekend, thousands poured out onto the […]
(TVP World) Hassen Chalghoumi, an imam from the Parisian suburb of Drancy, called on Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Saturday to expel all individuals connected to radical Islam who are not French citizens from the country. The appeal came after a young […]
(Kathimerini) An alarm was raised on Thursday night on the southeastern Aegean island of Leros when 123 Palestinian and Syrian refugees and migrants attempted to leave the migrant facility and board a ship destined for Piraeus, catching local officials by surprise. The […]
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